[lproven]

Entirely this.

I feel that if there were some way of promoting a Javascript-free web, everything the world needs is already there in all modern browsers.

I suspect that between HTML5, and indeed XHTML, and CSS and all the many modern image formats and so on, everything important that almost any site needs could be done using these tools and no JS at all.

And the result could also be interpreted and rendered successfully by much smaller simpler browsers, along the lines of Netsurf and Dillo, which are 10% of the size of a full dynamic-content browser or less.

The question is how.

A contest? Make the richest website you can that uses no Javascript, Typescript or anything else, and win a prize as well as promotion?

[giantrobot]

I don't think a contest is needed. Just a desire to participate in the "Smol Web". Back in the day we had the "best viewed in any browser" badge indicating a page worked fine in IE and Navigator and probably also lynx. Personally I hate making web pages that don't work in Dillo or lynx.

[lproven]

I think, as per my comment above, you're misinterpreting me too.

I am not trying to create a reason to make script-free websites. I think they are their own justification.

I am trying to propose a method for making them visible and showing webdevs what can be done and why it's worth trying.

[sircastor]

I think a contest would be antithetical to the idea being circled here. The early web (to me) was filled with content front people who put out there because they wanted to share. Put your page up because here’s something you think is cool. I feel like it loses something with a contest.

[lproven]

I think you misinterpret my motivation here.

What I want is less use of Javascript and related scripting languages across the web. I'd like more websites that don't need it.

I am merely proposing a mechanism for getting people to explore what can be done without it, and how it might in fact be easier, more fun, and more maintainable.